Today’s MIX Challenge (MIX149) has us playing with water colors or scraps or tags or all 3. I have all 3. And also references a water color ornament tutorial from Wednesday. And I admit, I started this “playing” last weekend before either was posted so I guess Dina & I must have been on the same wavelength, though I did go about mine a little differently.
For this one, I stamped the ornament on water color paper then took a gold gel pen and drew squiggly lines across it to imitate marbling. Then I wet areas of the ornament. From experience I knew the water would make the gold gel pen run & that’s what I wanted. I added reds & bright pinks on one side then dried it w/ a heat gun. Then I did the yellows, blue & greens on the other side & dried it. The gold from the gel pen added a wonderful little bit of gold glitter across the ornament. I fussy cut it then covered it w/ clear embossing powder & heated it. I did this twice so it’s really glossy. The red, lime & gold pieces were all scraps that I either embossed, die cut or used as is. The little reddish drops are a bonus from making the ornament on the tag below.
Supplies:
| Stamps: DRS Designs-   – Simple Ornament, Christmas to All Greeting |
| Paper:Â water color, Neenah white, grass green, lime green, red, scrap of gold |
| Ink:Â Â Vesafine onyx, Versamark |
| Accessories:Â Peerless water colors, gold gel pen, clear embossing powder, baker’s twine, pine branch corners embossing folder (Darice), holly die (Sizzix), Spellbinders labels 16 die, Lil’ Inkers stitched rectangles die, paper crimper, Misti |
On this ornament tag, I stamped the ornament like above & water colored similarly, but I did not use the gold gel pen. After 3 coats of clear embossing powder, it started to do a cracked glass thing, so I heated it & tilted it until these perfect little round drops of melted ep dripped off onto my craft sheet. Then I added a layer of a holographic ep but decided it was too much & heated it until most of it dripped off. Now just a little sparkle is left & I like it much better.
 The perfect little round “dew drops” of melted ep were glued on as berries & embellishments on the first card.
Again, I used scraps of die cuts & embossed them. The white & red layers were cut w/ a Grand Label 4 and I just trimmed off the bottom so the tag would stand upright.
Supplies:
| Stamps: DRS Designs-   – Simple Ornament, Merry Christmas |
| Paper:Â water color, Neenah white, lime green |
| Ink:Â Â Vesafine onyx, Versamark |
| Accessories:Â Spellbinders tag, Grand labels 4, gold label 4Â dies, Misti, sequins, baker’s twine, eyelet, clear embossing powder, stardust embossing powder |
Thanks so much for stopping by! If you haven’t, head on over and check out the DRS Thursday Challenge…this week, Tags! Make a tag or have one on your project. DRS images are not required & there’s a nice prize up for grabs.
Gorgeous ornaments! Love your technique – thanks for sharing.